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I'm not dumb enough to take a Dunne piece as gospel, but I do think the Beane hate and the subsequent McDermott lovebombing is a weird reaction. The fact of the matter is that if you're going to change one I'd much rather change the coach. It's an immediate impact, much more so than the GM.

The "Perfect game" against the Patriots in the playoffs where Allen got points every time they had the ball. By far my favorite moment.

The hysteria around this is getting silly.

LoI guess we can cross Arians off of the potential coaches list.

I want to see an emphasis on offensive production first and foremost. Efficiency is great, but demoralizing your opponents by being relentlessly scoring is better. Less reliance on constantly changing and rotating defensive linemen. This will mean less draft capital is ultimately needed for this position group. Get bigger on the interior of the defense. Maximize Allen by creating a more effective WR room. I want to see veteran investment coupled with constant restocking in the draft. We shouldn't be giving out Curtis Samuel type contracts when we can use draft resources to get cheap talent.

If this is the last time we see Baylon Spector or AJ Klein I swear I'm gonna stop watching the Bills.

Lol, what? Now we are verging into conspiracy theory.

Nobody is disagreeing with that. I don't see why it's relevant though. Again, I don't believe McDermott was fired because of the Denver game.

I don't disagree with much here, and I expected Beane gone way more than McDermott. Either way, getting rid of the head coach is the more impactful change. If Beane is blowing smoke it's going to be come apparent really quickly.

It might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but it's wild to think that his historically bad playoff defenses year over year didn't have anything to do with it. Or 13 seconds. Or the blunders in the regular season that made them lose the division. Or first half collapses every other game. This is so revisionist.

Who's hanging them on anything? It's a culmination of poor coaching decisions and a coaching philosophy that doesn't maximize Allen that has had me saying for years that I'm fine if they move on from McDermott. If you're looking at the Denver game as the reason to keep or fire McDermott then you're missing the forest for the trees.

I think it's crazy that anyone would have rather give McDermott another year with a different GM than give Beane another year with a different head coach. You don't even have to believe Beane is any good at his job. The head coach is the more impactful position to change.

Of course you can, that's ridiculous. I'm bashing his ability to call which style of playcall effectively in a key situation. You shouldn't blitz and leave Dane Jackson, who hasn't played any meaningful football all season, alone and 1v1. That's the right time to call a "don't get beat deep" type of zone, precisely because you can't trust the coverage to not get beat deep. You want to blitz when Tre White's out there? Sure. Go for it. He's earned that trust.

I couldn't disagree more. In a vacuum it's not a bad playcall, but the context makes it terrible. In the situation where you have to trust that your pressure gets home AND Dane Jackson holds up 1v1. That's a big gamble. Of all the times to get away from the safe zone, keep everything ahead of you type-plays he chose about the worst time to do it.

Probably shouldn't be putting him on an island then. That's a coaching blunder. I don't care if you have to take a time out to figure out what to do, you already got burned putting in a 5th string safety earlier in the game. That's two gimme TDs they got off of poor situational coaching.